Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001542The Harvesters
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left: L. Lhermitte
Provenance
William Schaus, New York, by April 17, 1893; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, April 17, 1893 for $4,250 [according to the receipt of sale, copy in curatorial file]; intermittently on loan to the Art Institute from 1914 [see Art Institute 1914]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Exhibition history
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Paine Art Center and Gardens, Léon Hermitte, September 21–November 10, 1974, cat. 27. Dallas Museum of Art, Van Gogh’s Sheaves of Wheat, October 22, 2006–January 7, 2007, cat. 37.
Publications
“News of Current Art,” Chicago Times-Herald (January 26, 1896), p. 36. Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 211, no. 2135. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 161, no. 2121. Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 185. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 260. Mary Michele Hamel, “A French Artist: Léon Lhermitte (1844–1925),” (Ph.D. diss., Washington University, 1974), no. 141 (ill.). Sophie Monneret, Dictionnaire international illustré l’impressionisme et son époque, vol. 1 (Paris: Denoël, 1976), p. 335. Monique Le Pelley Fonteny, Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844–1925): Catalogue Raisonné (Paris: Cercle d’Art, 1991), p. 105, no. 48.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844–1925)
- Date
- 1888–89
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 52.9 × 77.3 cm (20 13/16 × 30 7/16 in.); Framed: 69.5 × 93.4 × 7.7 cm (27 3/8 × 36 3/4 × 3 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.1139
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